The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) was established in 1935 and is one of the oldest and largest humanitarian organizations in Ethiopia. ERCS provides services to communities affected by natural and manmade disasters through the provision of emergency responses, ambulance and first aid, family reunification, essential drugs, water and sanitation, and other humanitarian services. ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. Currently the ERCS has a structure consisting of 12 Regional Offices, 34 Zonal Branches and 131  District/Woreda Branches, 599 Woreda Red Cross Committee  and 5871 Kebele Red Cross  committees.

Job Summary

Under the general direction and guidance of Secretary General, the Director of the School of Humanity plans, organizes, coordinates, controls and supervises the establishment of the School of humanity, ensures the development of the training manuals, modules and curriculum for specific trainings and courses; conduct periodic need assessment of the trainings; leads/manages the School of Humanity; develops marketing and publicity strategy to promote the activities of the School and implements same upon approval; hosts training programs in collaboration with the CCDHS and strives to devise ways of effectively running the School with the aim of establishing the Center of excellence School of Humanity; administers and coordinates the activities and resources of the School; reports periodically on the performance of the Center.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Works to realize the establishment of the School of Humanity
• Plans, organizes, coordinates, leads and controls trainings and resources of the School.
• Ensures the development of training modules.
• Develop curriculum for the specific trainings and courses.
• Ensures the proper implementation of policies, strategy, procedures and manuals of the NS;
• Initiates and proposes changes in the Policy, Strategy and Procedure manuals for the realization of the mission of the School;
• Assesses the actual and potential training needs of humanitarian sectors and other related institutions in the country;
• Designs and provide tailor made and standardized humanitarian training programs and other capacity development packages for humanitarian sector and others;
• Design, develop /update training manuals as per the need and endorsed title/ topics;
• Provides research and other consultancy services for ERCS and other humanitarian sectors and related organizations in the country.
• Initiate and design service infrastructure development, expansion, diversification and implement accordingly;
• Collaborates with CCDHS in business development and marketing School of humanity Services.
• Ensure existence and handling of proper database of trainers, researches and consultants both within and outside of ERCS that the School intends to work with;
• Put in place system that promote efficient service and apply ICT application for the entire School;
• Develop marketing and publicity strategy to promote the activity of the School and implement the same upon approval;
• Evaluates the entire work process periodically and take corrective measure;
• Devises ways of effectively running the School with the aim establishing the center of Excellence in humanitarian training.
• Develop the recruitment system/mechanism of the professional trainers
• Identify associate trainers and professionals to be included in the trainers’ database and assign them when the need arises as per the procedure;
• Initiates studies to the expansion and diversification of services;
• Reports periodically on the performance of the School to SG.
• Performs other related duties and responsibilities of the School as assigned by the SG.

Work Unit :- School of Humanity

Reports to:- Secretary General

Job Requirements

Qualification Requirements:

• Second degree/first degree in Management / Business Administration. /Educational Planning & Management / Human Resource Management /Educational Administration / Pedagogical Science.
• Serving as dean of the Academy, faculty or University.
• 10/12 years of relevant work experience, out of which 5/7 years in managerial position(s)